Fred Alvin Bryant

Photo courtesy of the Joshua Brackett Eagle Scout Project

(June 21, 1895 - July 8, 1969)

The Lusk Herald

July 17, 1969

Funeral For Fred Bryant Held Fri.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Peet Mortuary for Fred Alvin Bryant, 74, who died July 8 of a coronary thrombosis. The Rev. Fred Bolinger of the First Baptist Church of Lusk officiated. Odd Fellow services were conducted. Burial was in the Lusk Cemetery.

Mrs. A. F. DeCastro and Mrs. Dean Glandt, accompanied by Mrs. J. P. Watson on the organ, sang "This World Is Not My Home" and "In The Garden."

He was born June 21, 1895 to John F. Bryant and Candis F. Meyers. At the age of 15 he moved with his family to a homestead northeast of Hat Creek. Here he grew to manhood and filed on a homestead a few miles from his parent's home.

In 1917 he joined the military service and served overseas with the 8th Infantry Company D.

He married Sylvania Howell on June 28, 1919, and they were the parents of seven children. Mrs. Howell died in 1959.